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005.00G.001 T%+Hou shal[sp:sic] not laugh in this leafe, Muse, nor they
005.00G.002 Whom any pity warms. He which did lay
005.00G.003 Rules to make Courtiers, he being understood
005.00G.004 May make good courtiers, but who courtiers good?
005.00G.005 Free's from the sting of jests all who in extreme
005.00G.006 Are wretched or wicked, of these two a theam
005.00G.007 Charity and liberty give me. What is he
005.00G.008 Who Officers rage, and Suitors misery [CW:Can]
005.00G.009 Can write in jest? If all things be in all, [p.136]
005.00G.010 As I think, since all, which were, are, and shall
005.00G.011 Be, be made of the same elements:
005.00G.012 Each thing, each thing implyes or represents.
005.00G.013 Then man is a world; in which, Officers,
005.00G.014 Are the vast ravishing seas; and suters,
005.00G.015 Springs, now full, now shallow, now dry, which, to
005.00G.016 That which drowns them, run: these self reasons do
005.00G.017 Prove the world a man, in which, officers
005.00G.018 Are the devouring stomach, and Suters
005.00G.019 The excrements which they void. All men are dust,
005.00G.020 How much worse are Suters, who to mens lust
005.00G.021 Are made preys? O worse than dust or worms meat,
005.00G.022 For they do eat you now, whose selves worms shall eat.
005.00G.023 They are the mills which grind you, yet you are
005.00G.024 The wind which drives them; and a wastful war
005.00G.025 Is fought against you, and you fight it; they
005.00G.026 Adulterate law, and you prepare the way,
005.00G.027 Like wittals, th'issue your own ruin is.
005.00G.028 Greatest and fairest Empress, know you this?
005.00G.029 Alas, no more than Thames calm head doth know
005.00G.030 Whose meads her arms drown or whose corn o're-flow.
005.00G.031 You sir, whose righteousness she loves, whom I
005.00G.032 By having leave to serve, am most richly
005.00G.033 For service paid, authoriz'd. now begin
005.00G.034 To know and weed out this enormous sin.
005.00G.035 O Age of rusty Iron! Some better wit
005.00G.036 Call it some worse name, if ought equal it.
005.00G.037 The iron Age was, when justice was sold, now
005.00G.038 Injustice is sold dearer far, allow
005.00G.039 All claim'd fees and duties, Gamesters, anon
005.00G.040 The money which you sweat and swear for, is gon
005.00G.041 Into other hands: So controverted lands
005.00G.042 Scape, like Angelica the strivers hands. [CW:If]
005.00G.043 If Law be in the Judges heart, and he [p.137]
005.00G.044 Have no heart to resist letter, or fee,
005.00G.045 Where wilt thou appeal? power of the Courts below,
005.00G.046 Flow from the first main head, and these can throw
005.00G.047 Thee, if they suck thee in, to misery,
005.00G.048 To fetters, halters. But if the injury
005.00G.049 Steel thee to dare complain, Alas, thou go'st
005.00G.050 Against the stream upwards, when thou art most
005.00G.051 Heavy and most faint; and in these labours they,
005.00G.052 'Gainst whom thou should'st complain, will in thy way
005.00G.053 Become great seas, o're which, when thou shalt be
005.00G.054 Forc'd to make golden bridges, thou shalt see
005.00G.055 That all thy gold was drown'd in them before.
005.00G.056 All things follow their like, only who have may have more.
005.00G.057 Judges are Gods; and he who made them so,
005.00G.058 Meant not men should be forc'd to them to go,
005.00G.059 By means of Angels. When supplications
005.00G.060 Wee send to God, to Dominations,
005.00G.061 Powers, Cherubins, and all heavens Courts, if we
005.00G.062 Should pay fees, as here, Daily bread would be
005.00G.063 Scarce to Kings; so 'tis. Would it not anger
005.00G.064 A Stoick, a Coward, yea a Martyr,
005.00G.065 To see a Pursivant come in, and call
005.00G.066 All his clothes, Copes; Books, Primers; and all
005.00G.067 His Plate, Chalices, and mistake them away,
005.00G.068 And ask a fee for comming? Oh; ne'r may
005.00G.069 Fair laws white reverend name be strumpeted, 
005.00G.070 To warrant thefts: she is established
005.00G.071 Recorder to Destiny, on earth, and she
005.00G.072 Speaks Fates words, and tells who must be
005.00G.073 Rich, who poor, who in chairs, who in jayles:
005.00G.074 She is all fair, but yet hath foul long nales,
005.00G.075 With which she scatcheth Suiters. In bodies
005.00G.076 Of men, so in law, nailes are extremities. [CW:So]
005.00G.077 So Officers stretch to more than law can do, [p.138]
005.00G.078 As our nails reach what no else part comes to.
005.00G.079 Why barest thou to yon Officer? Fool, hath he
005.00G.080 Got those goods, for which erst men bar'd to thee?
005.00G.081 Fool, twice, thrice, thou hast bought wrong, & now hungerly
005.00G.082 Beg'st right, but that dole coms not till these dy.
005.00G.083 Thou had'st much, and laws Urim and Thummim trie
005.00G.084 Thou wouldst for more; and for all hast paper
005.00G.085 Enough to cloath all the great Charricks Pepper.
005.00G.086 Sell that, and by that thou much more shalt leese 
005.00G.087 Then Hammon, when he sold his Antiquities.
005.00G.088 O wretch, that thy fortunes should moralize
005.00G.089 Esops fables, and make tales, prophesies.
005.00G.090 Thou art the swimming dog whom shadows cozeneth, 
005.00G.091 Which div'st near drowning, for what vanisheth.
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